Gillette, WY
Gillette, WY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Gillette at the 84th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 13,522 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gillette at the 84th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
Gillette's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Gillette's buildings (51.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 13,522 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Gillette against the rest of the country
Gillette's 84th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 67th ranking inside Wyoming does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 17 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gillette ranks 4,996 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,118 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wyoming alone, it ranks 64 of 192 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wyoming on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gillette
Gillette's very high rating (84th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 51.9% of Gillette's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Gillette's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 13,522 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Gillette. The exposure-zones guide covers what Gillette's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.